For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
The coffee scene in Dubai is thriving, and the city is set to welcome the Specialty Coffee Association’s World of Coffee event next month. But underneath the glitzy facade and marketing buzz lies a moral quagmire.
A naturally-decaffeinated coffee is a step closer to reality as a decades-long project in Brazil finally begins field tests. Just another few years to get a harvest...
Nestlé wants to close its last US-based coffee plant, which would mean eliminating 200 unionized jobs in New Jersey. The Teamsters are trying to stop it from doing so.
And, in a shameless piece of PR (which I wrote about, so joke’s on me), Peet’s is “hiring” what they’re calling a “Chief Cold Brew Officer”—for the summer, anyway. Oh and it’s not paid, unless you count exposure and $200 worth of cold brew every week.
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